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...majority of the class was determined to take revenge against Woodbury, who, by this point had very few friends or supporters. On Exhibition Day, diarist Dodge recalls the "Black's" speech being "hissed for a full five minutes. The chapel was in perfect uproar...
...college met at two o'clock that afternoon at a public gathering in the Chapel. "As soon as Woodbury entered, everyone instantaneously rose from his seat, and cries of 'out with him, out with the rascal' were succeeded by cheers of boisterous exclamations from every corner of the house...
...advanced and struck him in the face, and the entire class crowded around, picked him up, and "immediately thrust him headlong over the stairs." The president refused to continue the gathering, and later that evening called four students before the government, charged them with throwing Woodbury out of the chapel, and expelled them...
...Chapel scene was repeated that night at evening prayers. Students threw Woodbury out, the President refused to continue, and the college adjourned to dinner...
...Rebellion Tree [an elm in front of Hollis], when 41 out of 70 bound themselves by an oath that they would not return to order till the four expelled members were recalled and Woodbury sent from the College." They also pledged that if Woodbury appeared next morning in chapel, they would not only remove him, but they would "thrash him severely...